Hot New {Music} Album: Jay-Z Open Up About Beyonce, Solange, Kanye, His Mother +More On 4:44 | Stream Here

Fans have been patiently waiting for the release of a new Jay-Z album for nearly four years now ever since Magna Carter Holy Grail impacted back in 2013, but the wait is finally over. After months of speculation & weeks of cryptic banners being displayed around the country promoting “4:44” & a few commercials to go along with it more recently, Hov’s thirteenth studio album has officially arrived today via his partnership with Sprint x Tidal.

Laced with 10 records in total, the follow up to 2014’s Magna Carta Holy Grail features guest appearances from the likes of Frank Ocean, Damien Marley & his mother Gloria Carter, who appears on the song “Smile.” Meanwhile, there’s a “heavy presence” of No I.D.’s production.

Available now, fans can stream the new project in its entirety via Tidal now. Suggest you roll up & enjoy some new Hov on this 4th of July weekend!

Update: Hov has also went ahead & released a new video for the song “The Story Of O.J.” (see for yourself below).”

Jay-Z’s using his wife’s playbook to push his new album, “4:44” — making personal revelations about cheating and his mother’s sexuality.
Hov opens his title track apologizing to Beyonce, and says it took the birth of their daughter, Blue Ivy, to change his womanizing ways. It’s interesting … he also refers to his newborn twins as “natural.” The assumption is he wants everyone to know they didn’t use in vitro.
Then there’s “Smile” where he rhymes … “Mama had four kids, but she’s a lesbian/ Had to pretend so long that she’s a thespian.”
There’s also a shot at Eric Benet on the album opener, “Killing Jay Z.” Hov raps, “You almost went Eric Benet/ Let the baddest girl in the world get away.” Benet’s marriage to Halle Berry ended after he cheated on her